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Teen COVID-19 Resource Guide
Home
Activism
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Xenophobia & Racism
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What is Bibliotherapy?
Escape This World (Fantasy/Sci-Fi)
Escape This Time (Historical Fiction)
Save the World (Dystopia)
A Different Kind of Normal (Books About Pandemics)
Wishing for Normal (Contemporary and Romance)
Secrets and Lies (Mysteries and Thrillers)
A Different Way of Reading (Alternative Formats)
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WiFi /Digital Divide
Is access to WiFi a privilege or a right?
Did you know the United Nations believes that WiFi internet access is a human right because of its importance to access to information?
https://www.businessinsider.com/un-says-internet-access-is-a-human-right-2016-7
Schools, libraries, businesses, and other groups try to provide local service as they can, but lack of access can still harm teens:
Digital Divide: What It’s Like to be a Student Without Internet at Home
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/internet-access-poor-students
To help during this time, s
ome schools are even using buses as hotspots:
https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/while-schools-are-closed-illinois-district-uses-buses-as-wi-fi-hotspots
Photo provided by PixaBay
https://pixabay.com/illustrations/free-wifi-wifi-wifizone-logo-1563024/
What is our place in this topic? How do we exist in the bigger picture? What groups are already helping? How can we help on an individual level?
Right now companies like Comcast are trying to help get everyone connected:
I
nternet Essentials from Comcast
https://www.internetessentials.com/
And broader organizations like
Chicago Public Schools are trying to
provide access for all students
Chicago Public Schools
: Getting Connected to the Internet Guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ejwEUTt56mDdcNUDQ2oLFlL--qhC3qe-lhlOe5mD4gs/edit?usp=sharing
How does
this
topic tie back to COVID-19 and beyond
? What
does it highlight about inequities and opportunities moving forward
This issue isn't new to COVID-19, but the lack of physical access to school is highlighting the issues and the digital divide.
For example: "
In some Illinois towns, internet shortfalls and lack of computers putting students at a disadvantage during an extended period away from the classroom. ‘A poverty issue, pure and simple."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-student-digital-divide-illinois-20200327-ezxulbtxw5bcxpesfrw7nooqhe-story.html
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